{"id":62458,"date":"2021-12-02T20:32:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62458"},"modified":"2021-12-02T20:33:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:33:38","slug":"in-2002-the-fifth-generation-afro-argentine-was-kept-from-leaving-the-country-by-a-customs-officer-who-insisted-there-are-no-black-argentines-and-asserted-her-passport-was-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62458","title":{"rendered":"In 2002, the fifth-generation Afro-Argentine was kept from leaving the country by a customs officer who insisted there are no Black Argentines and asserted her passport was fake."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This year\u2019s November celebration of African culture in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argentina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Argentina<\/a> is dedicated to the memory of Maria Magdalena Lamadrid \u2014 \u201cLa Pocha\u201d \u2014 an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Argentines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afro-Argentine<\/a> activist who died in September. In 2002, the fifth-generation Afro-Argentine was kept from leaving the country by a customs officer who insisted there are no Black Argentines and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/spanish\/misc\/newsid_2285000\/2285932.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserted her passport was fake<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christiana Sciaudone, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Argentine movement tries to make Black heritage more visible<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Associated Press<\/em>, November 26, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-entertainment-discrimination-migration-race-and-ethnicity-0d18920b22e0eab19f28202c591ef0ea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-entertainment-discrimination-migration-race-and-ethnicity-0d18920b22e0eab19f28202c591ef0ea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s November celebration of African culture in Argentina is dedicated to the memory of Maria Magdalena Lamadrid \u2014 \u201cLa Pocha\u201d \u2014 an Afro-Argentine activist who died in September. In 2002, the fifth-generation Afro-Argentine was kept from leaving the country by a customs officer who insisted there are no Black Argentines and asserted her passport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12089,676,32485,32489],"class_list":["post-62458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-afro-argentines","tag-argentina","tag-christiana-sciaudone","tag-maria-magdalena-lamadrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62460,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62458\/revisions\/62460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}